The nickname came from the first pair of baseball spikes that Albrecht got when he was about 5 years old.

“I was a big baseball fan,” he says. “I started wearing them everywhere. I was wearing them out to eat, to go to church and stuff like that. It’s kind of embarrassing. So people started calling me Spike. And here I am, a freshman in college, and it still sticks.”

During the Final Four, his actual name is used in the program and on the box scores given out to the media. Albrecht figures there’s at least one person who is pleased with that development.

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